O-BOMB-A

When something is too good to be true, they usually are. Which is why, under insufficient evidence, you should always question, ponder, verify and not hastily give anyone the benefit of the doubt.
As in the case of Obama. I actually did give him some benefit of my doubt for a while back. Admittedly I fell into the herd syndrome, influenced by the way the whole world talks of him like he’s the only flavor of the century and that’s not highly circumspect of me and more than half the world over whose ideals mirror mine I guess. He has been magnanimously adored and looked upon for new changes. I wasn’t even so sure what changes he was going to bring exactly, too quick to discount reality for the sense of hope even if it may have been false. But honestly, if you’d stopped and think, and maybe ask yourself how big a change would you expect anyway, you will know not to be too hasty. How big is he against the sophisticated machine of real American politics? Could one man overturn an established institution of utter humanly greed and injustice? Because no matter how the people vote, the tipping of scales in a certain direction is usually run by the same mechanism that has run it for centuries old and monopolized by the power people who hold the threads of American politics. Look at his cabinet, if they’re not true Zionist themselves, they are hard core Israeli uprooters, down the line Jewish hawks planted and posted to strengthen the Zionist Agenda. Obama may even have won at their mercy.. People needed a different kind of leader and Obama seemed like a good enough puppet to represent change ad trumpet hope when all he would do would of course continue safeguarding the interests of selects groups.

So is he too good to be true? Yes, I’m afraid so he most probably is. He’s real allright. How good is he though, many people have had their doubts even before American presidential election concluded his victory. Many people, who, unlike me (people like Robert Fisk for instance) judge or form an opinion of a person by the wisdom of all correlating parallels. Smart people indeed. As for me, because I’m apparently not so smart, didn’t even know two parallels to compare to begin with in regards to my stand on Obama; that saw me giving in to blind faith of the unclear changes I hoped he would bring.

But now that i know better, I have been made to realize this may just be another dream we all dream that's just awaiting to have it all dashed. And with speeches like the one he gave at AIPAC (America Israel Public Affairs Committee), one should be wary of what you expect from him cause clearly his stand did not promise that much change somehow. And whatever he has promised is yet to be delivered and as for change? He hasn’t exactly walk the talk has he now? Aside from Guantanamo (which may or may not even be a conclusive effort), he has expressed utmost empathy with the Israelis, killers and human rights defaulters, failing to acknowledge even that they are in fact occupying other people’s lands (yup, i couldn't believe he was that dense and ignorant about the situation coz he does look a lot smarter than Bush jr.), and mercilessly going on an endless human killing rampage that violates the rights of human living. He has pledged some mighty great promises to Israel, which ideally means and clearly translates into more means to incur more deaths to the people of Palestine. So what change was he talking about exactly? Because the world in general wanted the primary change he's bringing is the overhaul of US Foreign Affairs Policy? Did he mean change as in improving the empowerment of Israel? That sure is a change in that area, but opposite direction to the mass expectation of the world but it is change nonetheless. If that was it then he’s keeping to his words while the whole world bemoans another deceit..

I do not wish to comment much more on my non-President Obama, clearly he’s for the Americans to wash their hands about, but even before watching his speech at AIPAC, I started feeling wary of his choice of cabinet. Now that I’ve seen his speech at AIPAC, I’m just utterly disappointed, whatever hopes I had squashed to non-existence. Forget the inauguration speech. He looks so much like a 'lalang' now, bending along and saying things just to please the common majority when it suits him. So much like a De Facto Leader i know of that we have here in Malaysia..

And until he walks the talk, I’m afraid I hold no more hope of change from Barack Hussein Obama.

To watch his speech at AIPAC you may go here.